The main thing that will hurt the publishers is not producing books people are willing to pay for. Selling ebooks for $13-15 is not going to hurt the publishers who's retail for those SAME books was $25/30. Yeah, yeah, we all know that nobody paid the retail price...but hardback books were still going for $15-20.
If someone doesn't think $15 is fair for an ebook, so they buy the hardback instead...that's still a sale for the publisher.
What isn't a sale is a book no one wants to buy.
Lee
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